We are currently thick in the middle of week one of our Creative Sessions first play – 23 bands, a new band a day, and today was the first opportunity to listen to the Midway Still session in its entirety. There were a band who were much lauded in the early 90s, described by the NME as Britain’s answer to Nirvana, and I was there to witness them first time round – although in my opinion, and perhaps unusually, since getting back together a few years ago they have trumped all of their 90s work with two excellent albums, Note To Self in 2010 and Always Ends, which came out last month. You can buy their stuff and read all about them at their official website.
If you missed it you can see a video of them recording the title track to “Note To Self” for us below:
Today’s album of the week was from former Stereolab frontperson Laetitia Sadier, who has been much missed from the music world since Stereolab stopped putting out an album every fortnight when they went on “permanent hiatus” a couple of years ago.
Tonight’s playlist:
B-52’s – Give Me Back My Man
Bleech – Weirdo
Euros Childs – That’s Better
Midway Still – Sweat (Phoenix FM Creative Session)
Bloc Party – Little Thoughts
Laetitia Sadier – Find Me The Pulse Of The Universe
Dirty Royals – I’m In Love
Turnpike Glow – 1986
Boy – Drive Darling
Turtle Soup – Penrose Walks (Phoenix FM Creative Session)
Sibyl Vane – Get Out Of Town
Midway Still – Note To Self (Phoenix FM Creative Session)
Shiny Darkness – Prayer For My Imaginary World (Phoenix FM session 23-06-2012)
Laetitia Sadier – Auscultation To The Nation
Jack In Water – My Favourite Story (Phoenix FM session 09-07-2012)
Lovely Eggs – I Like Birds (But I Like Other Animals Too)
Midway Still – This Is How It Ends (Phoenix FM Creative Session)
We Are The Physics – Goran Ivanisevic
Modovar – Same Old Scene
Franz Ferdinand – Cheating On You
Gorillaz – Stylo (Erland and the Carnival Carnivalization remix)
Brownies – Fight Night
Pond – You Broke My Cool
Laetitia Sadier – Fragment Pour Le Future De L’Homme
Andrew Grumbridge – We Are All Alone
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Only In My Dreams
Snøskred – We Are
Pulp – This Is Hardcore
